Frances Kissling is a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the former president of Catholics for a Free Choice.

Frances Kissling's Salon stories

Monday, Nov 9, 2009 14:10 PST

When Congress sells out women

The Democrats' lust to win at any cost stripped abortion from the healthcare bill. Can pro-choicers put it back?
Sunday, Nov 1, 2009 18:31 PST

The pope launches a right-wing affirmative-action program

Benedict wants to beef up the ranks of conservative Catholics. If that means bending the rules, no problem
Sunday, Oct 25, 2009 17:20 PDT

Donors should be rewarded for their kidneys

Millions of people like me need kidneys and there aren't enough. The government should give benefits to live donors
Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009 00:06 PDT

What is the Vatican, exactly?

The pope's UN rep swats away questions about sexual abuse -- and raises questions about the church's special status
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2009 06:03 PDT

New Catholic sex prayer -- but where's the sex?

The Church's booklet for married spouses replaces excitement and intimacy with sack cloth and ashes
Monday, Sep 14, 2009 03:12 PDT

Exploiting the healthcare debate to restrict abortion

Some religious leaders are pushing Obama for more limits on federal abortion funding
Monday, Aug 24, 2009 03:22 PDT

Why don't Catholic bishops care about healthcare?

Catholic leaders lobby against abortion and euthanasia, but where's their activism on that other "life" issue?
Monday, Aug 17, 2009 03:15 PDT

Nuns on the run from the truth

Why won't the leadership of America's nuns meet with the survivors of sexual abuse by nuns, and hear their stories?
Monday, Aug 10, 2009 03:15 PDT

Men behaving badly aren't funny anymore

The quick demise of the Washington Post's silly "Mouthpiece Theater" shows there's less tolerance for media sexism
Monday, Aug 3, 2009 03:22 PDT

Sometimes abortion is the better choice

Should the U.S. government really be in the business of encouraging women to have babies?
Monday, Jul 27, 2009 03:20 PDT

The feds should fund abortion

Signs point to a healthcare plan that would continue to deny federal money for abortions. That would be a mistake
Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 08:24 PDT

How's that "common ground" going?

A new bill on abortion reduction shows serious strain -- but also progress
Monday, Jul 20, 2009 03:18 PDT

What's wrong with the new pro-lifers

The progressive anti-abortion movement still doesn't truly value the life and identity of the mother
Thursday, Jul 16, 2009 09:17 PDT

Jimmy Carter: How religion subjugates women

The former president speaks out against doctrine used to promote misogyny and abuse. Are you listening, Obama?
Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009 05:16 PDT

Is Regina Benjamin too fat to be surgeon general?

Actually, having a woman who is above-average weight as America's family doctor is a good thing
Friday, Jun 26, 2009 14:27 PDT

Should women get money for donating eggs?

The debate rages on, as New York becomes the first state to pay for the procedure in stem-cell research
Sunday, Jun 21, 2009 12:20 PDT

Can we ever say a woman can't choose?

It's hard for pro-choicers to admit sometimes a woman shouldn't be allowed to choose abortion -- but we have to
Sunday, Jun 14, 2009 09:13 PDT

How to talk about abortion

President Obama wants supporters and opponents of choice to find "common ground." Can that really happen?
Sunday, Jun 7, 2009 03:06 PDT

Obama's poor choice for faith leader

Why did a pro-choice president appoint someone to HHS who is against abortion AND birth control? Political payback?
Sunday, May 31, 2009 03:29 PDT

Are six Catholics too many for the Supreme Court?

Not if one is a divorced Latina. Sotomayor would be a positive influence on the court's five male Catholics.
Monday, May 18, 2009 12:10 PDT

The end of "pro-choice" America?

The new Gallup poll on abortion may not represent a sea change in public opinion, but it does highlight the question of just how much "choice" our country will tolerate.
Sunday, May 17, 2009 03:49 PDT

Randall Terry is no match for Obama

The man who destroyed the antiabortion movement with his extremism is trying to use the president's visit to Notre Dame to advance his cause, but he will fail -- again.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 03:17 PDT

Sex and the single Catholic priest

A former archbishop has admitted he's gay, the latest in a series of church scandals. Is it time to get rid of celibacy?
Sunday, May 10, 2009 03:20 PDT

It's time for Obama to listen to his mama

The president has promised to increase religion's influence on policymaking. He should honor the late Ann Dunham by strengthening the wall between church and state instead.
Monday, May 4, 2009 03:40 PDT

You can spare a dime to save a kid

Instead of buying yachts and gilded trash cans, Wall Street's bailout kings could have spent some of their excess cash alleviating poverty. But what about you and me?
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